There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“Humility is, "nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Kindness must be the highest virtue--don't let me forget that ever. Were I to strive for one thing only 'twould be to… — Joan W. Blos Copy Share Image
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is salvation - happiness and virtue - in beauty. I would define beauty in this context as a kind of richness,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
